[GOAL] Re: {Disarmed} DBT-DST Open Access Policy - Now 2nd Draft available for public comments

Fri Oct 10 21:24:09 BST 2014

Dear Anup,

Nothing could be more predictable than Elsevier's proposal for ruining your
excellent OA mandate proposal:

*Elsevier-1: "Pay Gold rather than providing Green. It's better."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*

*Elsevier-2: "Allow OA embargoes of longer than 12 months after
publication."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*.

*Elsevier-3: "Don't require deposit immediately upon acceptance: make it
after the embargo elapses..."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*

*Elsevier-4: "Don't require deposit of the author's final draft; in fact
don't recommend deposit at all: Let us do the deposit for you, at the
appointed time..."*

*Recommended Response*: *No, thanks... ;>)*.

Now would be an excellent time to stop listening to the Siren croak of the
publishing industry and do what's right for research, researchers, their
institutions, their funders, and the tax-paying public that bankrolls the
whole thing,

Best wishes,

Stevan

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:31 AM, anup kumar das <anupdas2072 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Now DBT-DST open access policy redrafted based on your inputs. They are
> open to more inputs till Nov 17. Also compare which clauses are dropped
> from the first draft. Here is the revised draft available online:
> http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/policy/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy_2nd_Draft.pdf
>
> Comments/ Responses already available for the first draft of DBT-DST Open
> Access Policy
> 1. Comments on the Proposed Open Access Policy of the DBT-DST by the
> Centre for Internet and Society, India
> http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/cis-comments-to-the-department-of-biotechnology-and-department-of-science-open-access-policy
> 2. India’s DBT and DST Call for Comments on Draft Open Access Policy with
> Respect to Public Funded Research by SpicyIP Tidbit
> http://spicyip.com/2014/07/spi
> cyip-tidbit-indias-dbt-and-dst-call-for-comments-on-draft-open-access-policy-with-respect-to-public-funded-research.html
> 3. Bravo to India’s DBT / DST on their proposed open access policy! by Dr.
> Heather Morrison
> http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2014/07/05/bravo-to-indias-dbt-dst-on-their-proposed-open-access-policy/
> 4. Elsevier Response on DBT-DST Open Access Policy
> http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/213476/Elsevier_Response-on-DBT-DST-OPEN-ACCESS-POLICY.PDF
> 5. Why not all research data be on Open Access?
>  http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/107/07/1093.pdf
> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.currentscience.ac.in%2FVolumes%2F107%2F07%2F1093.pdf&h=HAQHGZ6K-&enc=AZPmAO2rAxRmgf2BkOsVGZckUd-_jL5QKXXaGp3EqKe8cM5BaarAbmPLUkal6HhzGqdgMyyrc4Hcvii5sumhI5JxoXx2t9fURwm7FPEr_mROXRvJV-kx_zxrqx-6kkCQwaQRgHZPdTLIttIbqLk_oHR6&s=1>
>
> With Best Regards
>
> Anup
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:31 PM, <goal-request at eprints.org> wrote:
> Re: Open Access Policy on Website for Comments-Revised (4.7.2014) (Stevan
> Harnad)
> From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>
>
> The DBT/DST OA Mandate is excellent. It includes all six critical
> conditions for a natural, effective, verifiable and successful policy:
>
> 1. Author freedom of choice of journal is preserved.
> 2. Author may choose Green OA self-archiving or Gold OA publishing
> 3. Final refereed draft must be deposited in institutional repository
> immediately upon acceptance for publication
> 4. Funding is contingent on immediate deposit
> 5. Publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA not to exceed 12
> months
> 6. Repository should have the copy-request Button so author can provide
> individual access during embargo
>
> The critical conditions are excerpted below:
>
> DBT/DST Open Access Policy
>
> Grantees can make their papers open-access by publishing in an open-access
> journal or, if they choose to publish in a subscription journal, by posting
> the final accepted manuscript to an online repository.  What should be
> deposited? The final accepted manuscript (after refereeing, revision, etc.)
>  Where to deposit? The manuscript should be deposited in the grantee?s own
> institution?s interoperable institutional repository (IR). If the
> institution does not yet have an IR of its own, then the paper should be
> deposited in the central repository, which will be created by *DBT/DST.*
> When to deposit? Deposits should be made within one week of acceptance by
> the journal. However, if the journal insists on an embargo, the material
> should still be deposited, but the repository will keep the deposited
> papers non-OA and only make it fully OA at the end of the embargo period.
> Suggest that the period of embargo not be greater than one year.
> Articles under an embargo can still be made available to individuals by
> use of the Request Button available with the IR software. By use of the
> Request Button, a reader may automatically send a request for a copy to the
> author, as is commonly done by other communication means.
> Who should deposit? The principal investigator (PI) or someone authorized
> by the PI, or anyone authorized by the head of the institution where the
> work is carried out (such as the librarian), can deposit the papers. Both
> the PI and the head of the institution will be responsible for timely
> deposit of the paper.
> Depositing in a repository is mandatory Unless the deposit ID is quoted in
> the project report as well as in future proposals for funding, the
> proposals will not be considered.
> The DBT/DST recommend/s that all authors receiving funds from DBT/DST
> should, at the time of returning the copyright transfer form, inform the
> publisher that they would retain the right to place the full-text of the
> final author version in the institution?s IR and DBT/DST Central. This can
> be achieved by attaching to the copyright transfer agreement the DBT/DST
> author addendum.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Subbiah Arunachalam <
> subbiah.arunachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > Here is the proposed OA policy for DBT and DST, Government of India.
> > http://dbtindia.nic.in/docs/DBT-DST_Open_Access_Policy.pdf
> > Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
> > With best regards,
> > Arun
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> *Dr. Anup Kumar Das*
> Centre for Studies in Science Policy
> School of Social Sciences
> Jawaharlal Nehru University
> New Delhi - 110067, India
> Web: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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